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Cruz visit to Bronx high school canceled after students threaten a walkout:
The Daily News ^ | 04/06/2016 | BY CHAUNCEY ALCORN, LEONARD GREENE

Posted on 04/06/2016 8:33:57 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

‘His views are against ours’

Ted Cruz came to New York Wednesday talking about education, but he’s the one who got schooled.

The lesson came from a group of Bronx high school students who told the Republican presidential candidate to stay away.

Cruz was scheduled to speak at Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy until students wrote a letter to the principal asking her not to let Cruz come, prompting staffers to cancel the appearance.

"We told her if he came here, we would schedule a walkout," said Destiny Domeneck, 16. "Most of us are immigrants or come from immigrant backgrounds. Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for."

Destiny and her classmates communicated that sentiment to Lighthouse Principal Alix Duggins.

“A group of students will be leaving during 4th period, as (an) act of civil disobedience in regards to the arrival of Ted Cruz to BLCPA,” the letter said. “We have all considered the consequences of our actions and are willing to accept them.”

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To: MaxistheBest

I’m sure those ‘teachers’ jumped at any flimsy excuse to censor the speech of any republican. Any excuse will do.
“Just say that you felt threatened. That’s always worked before.”


21 posted on 04/06/2016 8:49:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MaxistheBest
"Most of us are immigrants or come from immigrant backgrounds. Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for."

These students are complete idiots.

22 posted on 04/06/2016 8:50:13 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: MaxistheBest

Good gosh... The colleges reject conservatives as speakers, the students and professors shut down our free speech, they protest Trump and create violence and now high school students are going to walk out on Cruz?? The Dems have stolen our children.. they want everything for free, not for you, but for me!!! We raised our kids to be smarter than this... now we’re working hard to save our grandchildren...it’s hard work but we refuse to give up!!!


23 posted on 04/06/2016 8:50:24 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any update on the following DC Madam phone numbers?

Did Cruz have a TX or DC or VA phone number during this time frame?

TX numbers

5/18/2006,2:48,PM,SANANTONIO,TX,210,882-6591

1/26/2006,2:59,PM,GRANDPRARI,TX,214,616-3080

9/29/2005,4:47,PM,SANANTONIO,TX,210,310-4983

8/24/2005,4:05,PM,HOUSTON,TX,713,366-2265

Not saying those were Cruz’s old phone numbed. Not sure. Who knows if he had one of the many DC phone numbers listed on the leak.

http://pastebin.com/1HJP7QYU


24 posted on 04/06/2016 8:52:31 PM PDT by E20erer (#AlwaysTrump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Another retread?”

Nice try :)


25 posted on 04/06/2016 8:53:49 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Since they would presumably do the same to Trump, would you still consider them to be smart kids?

How many leftist students prevented other students from hearing a speech and probably getting to ask questions of a presidential candidate? I wouldn’t be so ready to see this as a repudiation of a candidate you don’t support so much as a leftist tactic to keep other ideas out of their little world.


26 posted on 04/06/2016 9:00:20 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: DoughtyOne; Daniel Ramsey
The presence of Ted Cruz and the ideas he stands for are offensive. His views are against ours and are actively working to harm us, our community, and the people we love. He is misogynistic, homophobic, and racist. He has used vulgar language, gestures, and profanity directed at a scholar and staff members,

Somehow I doubt that these folks have much use for Trump, either.
27 posted on 04/06/2016 9:01:10 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: MaxistheBest

You admitted as much up above.


28 posted on 04/06/2016 9:01:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: MaxistheBest

And because he can’t rally more than a hundred supporters


29 posted on 04/06/2016 9:03:53 PM PDT by stanne
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To: E20erer

Texas has a population of over 28 million people. Do you know something we don’t or just fishing?


30 posted on 04/06/2016 9:03:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: MaxistheBest

Density sounds like she’s going the be a closed-minded child forever. Gibsmedat.


31 posted on 04/06/2016 9:06:13 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Late 2015 sign-on posts Cruz attack article from the most left-leaning newspaper in New York City? Seems legit.

That's no more or less legit than a 2006 sign-on posting a Trump attack article from the most left-leaning web site on the internet...

32 posted on 04/06/2016 9:07:06 PM PDT by sargon ("No king but Christ!")
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To: MaxistheBest

From the liberal students’ letter.

“The presence of Ted Cruz and the ideas he stands for are offensive. His views are against ours and are actively working to harm us, our community, and the people we love. He is misogynistic, homophobic, and racist. He has used vulgar language, gestures, and profanity directed at a scholar and staff members, along with harassing and posing threats to staff and scholars according to the Disciplinary Referral slip. This is not to be taken kiddingly or as a joke. We are students who feel the need and right to not be passive to such disrespect.”

I think thwy may be confused.
“he has used vulgar language” like? Constitution, freedom, and abolishing the IRS?


33 posted on 04/06/2016 9:08:57 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

A academic censorship strikes again.

P pray America wakes


34 posted on 04/06/2016 9:09:51 PM PDT by bray (Trump/Pain 2016)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I don’t know how to read this. You may be right, but there seems to be some commonality between Trump s people in the area.

Does it extend to these folks? I would not be surprised at all if you are right. Then again, who knows.

I still lean your direction.


35 posted on 04/06/2016 9:11:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: MaxistheBest
Cruz was scheduled to speak at Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy until students wrote a letter to the principal asking her not to let Cruz come, prompting staffers to cancel the appearance.

Good to know tomorrow's generation is so open-minded and eager to be exposed to new ideas. Yes, the future is in good hands.
36 posted on 04/06/2016 9:11:29 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: DoughtyOne
I don’t know how to read this.

Oh, Trump has plenty of support in the Bronx, including among minorities, but the reasoning behind attacking Cruz as issued in the statement reported would apply to Trump as much if not moreso.

A heavy immigrant school in the Bronx is not fertile ground for either man to be heard, even if some individual students would be receptive to the message.
37 posted on 04/06/2016 9:15:04 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: MaxistheBest

Stupid kids. If they would stay and listen, maybe they would actually learn something.


38 posted on 04/06/2016 9:16:10 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: sargon

Name it.


39 posted on 04/06/2016 9:16:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Texas has a population of over 28 million people. Do you know something we don’t or just fishing?"

And only about 1-in-20 of those turned out to support Cruz in the primary.

Just sayin'...
40 posted on 04/06/2016 9:16:46 PM PDT by Eisenhower Republican (Supervillains for Trump: "Because evil pays better!")
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